parodies just seem like an i am uncomfortable with thinking about race for 15 seconds defusing response. stating the obvious but i have less and less patience for that as i get older and crankier.
― horseshoe, Monday, 31 October 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
guy complaining about the poster campaign is p unwatchable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v04IdNPuMlc
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 31 October 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
vloggy glen beck
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
haha imagine all the tiresome ranting i am sparing you guys by not watching that
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
*personal growth*
looks like it could be an lcd soundsystem screengrab, gonna be so disappointed when i click playxxxp
― Local Christian Blues (schlump), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
the meme is incredibly hilarious tho
if you say so - they strike me as v. much what horseshoe says - "saw the deal, decided to be TOTALLY HILARIOUS! instead of thinking for half a second about something actually worth thinking about" i.e. just depressing evidence that at least as many people suck ass as have cool inspiring ideas
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
I like the campaign and am kinda uncomfortable with the popularity of the parodies, but the lobster holding a picture of dog in a lil lobster costume made me lose my shit
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Monday, October 31, 2011 7:57 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah I felt this way too but the dog/lobster one is cool because there are no people involved
― dayo, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
same length as 'all my friends' xps
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
Most annoying person ever - y/n?
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
i started to read the comments on that article donna rouge linked, all "what about how everyone dresses up as cowboys? WHAT ABOUT THE WHITES????" and then i just stopped myself.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://thtsrcst.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/lebron_indians.jpg?w=470&h=400
A co-worker wore this the day of the Announcement. As I walked by him, I said "Nice racist shirt!" (mock jovial), got into a verbal altercation (I made his legitimately lousy day worse), and then got nasty looks and cold shoulders from other co-workers the rest of the week. That was fun.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
bless you imo
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
my friend wanted to be katy perry and I was like, you can't, you're not white
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
that shirt is horrible!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
The Dalek poster I quite like, but I actually saw it several days ago, before I even knew it was a take-off of something. I do like the original posters!
― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
that shirt is.... weird
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
There needs to be a "We're a culture, not a sports mascot" campaign. Can't fucking believe some of that racist shit is still around -- and that dipshits get bent out of shape when called on it. And the mascots aren't even the worst of (cf. the "tomahawk chop" at Braves games).
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
also "the Washington Redskins"
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
there are no worse human beings than white people who act like being white these days = akin to slavery.
like...there are plenty of race-neutral costumes, yo! is it really imperative to your Halloween experience that you dress like Huggy Bear?
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
the Cleveland Browns
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
okay lol
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost don't get me started on the Indian nicknames thing. sports fans are ironically the ones who are hypersensitive about that shit -- and they'll always cite things like "a recent poll says 51% of Indians don't even give a shit!" or "THEY SHOULD FEEL HONORED".
and in the end it isn't even about taste, it's about $$$$. for instance, if you are Western Bolivia Kentucky Charleston State in a Division 8 school and you have an Indian nickname, the NCAA gets on your ass about it, and you change it, cuz you don't have the means to fight it.
meanwhile, when FSU is asked to change theirs a few years ago, because of how big the program is, JEB BUSH gets involved to reverse the order.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
i think most things involving dogs in costumes are kind of OK.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
the parody posters are funny if you don't know they're parodies of something
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
any d00d who says the "Indians should be proud" of how they're depicted in the sports world should be forced to own a team called the Washington Paisans, with the mascot being a buncha Joey Buttafuoco looking motherfucker running around the field in a wife beaterss.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
there's actually no way to turn that one around
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
buncha beaterss
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
My high school AND college had "Indian honoring" nicknames that were changed. There are "Once a _____, always a _____" Facebook groups for both. You can purchase shirts -- stand up to the gross injustice.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
― Neanderthal, Monday, October 31, 2011 7:16 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
godfather's pizza anyone?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
"Song of the South is a classic, it ain't racist ah tell ya"
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
can someone explain the lebron one to me, idgi
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
It's a double caricature.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
The Indians logo
+
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTiryYNuIKiJYbLoh8fupEUKj55NAEVZvi9uCm5Cp1j4c76AEmGfQ
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
i don't follow sports at all, so my mind is blown that that shirt immediately registers as "lebron" to people
― Youth Ya Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
Me too. I took it as being the regular Cleveland Indians mascot; now I see the Cavs headband and the earring. Here's the actual logo for comparison:http://www.hanksville.org/sand/stereotypes/images/chiefwahoo.gifAnd what the fuck, his name is "Chief Wahoo."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
I had a pretty fascinating conversation with an indian guy that I know (who's an ex-marine and cultural studies phd student) about how he's a big Redskins fan. He picked them as his NFL team while growing up even though he lived in the PNW because the logo was the only thing he saw in the media that looked like people he knew. I expected he'd go off about them but his view on was much funnier and complicated than I imagined it would be.
He did say that when he's gone to see them play once or twice he tucked in his braids because he didn't want to give any ammo to the racists who could point to him as supporting their cause.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
pardon my ignorance but are geisha costumes offensive?
― hotter than a hoochie coochie (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://threadbombing.com/data/media/2/popcorn.gif
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 06:21 (twelve years ago) link
Verb!
― buzza, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 06:25 (twelve years ago) link
pertinent article
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/10/racist-redskins/
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
Give us Clevelanders some credit, the logo used to look like this:
http://cf.juggle-images.com/fill-crop-mid/white/200x150/wg-cleveland-indians-4.jpg
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
The team and its fans still often point to a 2004 survey by the Annenberg Center, which found that by a margin of nine to one, American Indians took no offense at the name Redskins.2 They have bigger problems to worry about. I admit to a mild curiosity about whether they’d feel differently if they knew the name was dreamed up by the sport’s most overtly racist figure, who even in his will (he died in 1969) stipulated that the Redskins Foundation that was to be created with most of his estate not direct a single dollar toward “any purpose which supports or employs the principle of racial integration in any form.”
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
I admit to a mild curiosity about whether they’d feel differently if they knew the name was dreamed up by the sport’s most overtly racist figure, who even in his will (he died in 1969) stipulated that the Redskins Foundation that was to be created with most of his estate not direct a single dollar toward “any purpose which supports or employs the principle of racial integration in any form.”
That is one hell of a sentence.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
It doesn't scan perfectly, but I've started to read this thread title to the tune of "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress".
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.halloweencostumes.com/blog/post/2011/09/20/how-to-make-a-lil-wayne-costume-or-how-to-have-swagger.aspx
― your way better (Eazy), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE. ANDRE AGASSI????
http://deadspin.com/5855305/andre-agassi-is-mr-t
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
hoo boy
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, points for actually making an effort re: the rest of the costume but the skin tone is a massive "DON'T DO THAT"
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link